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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1939
Page
7
For sale a good young cow with two good Angus calves offered by W R Gamon at 6113. Also listing new living room suites at bargain prices and various cleaning appliances including Royal Bee Vac Airway Hoover and Elec tro Lux sweepers and related mattress and rug items.
Chicago markets show hogs mostly steady with 5 to 10 cent gains and top at 7.15. Cattle receipts near 1,000 with medium to good steers 6.25 to 10.0 and best heifers about 9.25, cows up to 7.50, heaviest weights 10.00. Sheep volume 19,000 with fat lambs down about 15 cents, good to choice ewes 9.65 to 9.75, rest 10.00 to 10.10 and higher. Estimated tomorrow Cattle 100 hogs 209 sheep 1,000.
Market steady for eggs with receipts 40 662 cases and unchanged quotations. Poultry market easy with receipts 47 trucks. hens 12 to 14 44, roosters 11 percent. other items unchanged.
Chicago market update lists percentage ranges for corn yellow and white varieties, oats white grades, and soybean color notes. Includes figures for corn receipts at 192 cars and mixed price bands for April.
Chicago price table shows wheat, corn, oats and rye futures with May and July contracts. Wheat May at 70% while July trades around 69 to 72 percent. corn May 47 to 48 percent, July 49 to 50 percent. oats May around 21 percent, July about 28 percent. rye May around 41 to 43 percent and July near 42 to 44 percent.
A synoptic note on Sybaris in South Italy famed for indulgence. Seneca tells of a Sybarite who could not rest at night, explaining his discomfort after finding a roseleaf doubled under him, illustrating excess and fragility.
The Sumerians first valued semi-precious stones and mastered stone-cutting to create cylinder seals signet rings beads and jewelry. Excavations at Kish by the Field Museum and Oxford University uncovered vast beads of agate carnelian and lapis lazuli from ancient ruins.
The All American canal is the largest irrigation ditch in the United States. It spans 60 miles with an initial capacity of 15 000 cubic feet per second and surface width of 232 feet tapering to 162 feet at the bottom with a water depth of 21 feet. Earth excavation totaled about 65 000 000 cubic yards.
A town patchwork record describes A W Motley at a filling station east of Washington, local farm prospects around 200 acres, and various readers’ notes. Mentions include Mrs N W Thompson of Washington R1 subscribing, Joan Sechants illness improvement, Beauchamps and Gould conversations, and Bruce Hanna at Bob Williams store after a long absence.
A visitor named Deam Cherry Holmes is noted for extensive travel and livestock shipments to markets. Inside a restaurant he faced a chronic grumbler who began complaining at the moment soup arrived, prompting Holmes to react to the scene.
Landscape notes a string of Sunday visits and gatherings around Washington and nearby towns. Families including Coakleys Swans Bowsers O Loughlins Hubers and Berghs share meals visits and greetings. chorus performs four numbers at a school event. a birth at Mercy hospital Iowa City. nursing student Marjorie Fesler visits. residents travel to Davenport Fort Madison and Moline for family and friends.
Riverside public school hosted an interpretative reading program in the assembly room. The program opened with a saxophone quartet, featured recitations by several students, a musical reading, and readings by upper division pupils. Home economics displayed frocks with Betty Butz commenting on style and construction.
D F Macon recounts brief updates from nearby towns including civic events, business openings, and social happenings. Highlights mention a meeting, local shop hours, and community milestones.
A diner complains of a fly in soup while a waiter jokes about a trout surfacing. The item mentions Melvin Sookup near Haskins, Crawfordsville, and farmers in the area including Jake Shrader and Dale Mitchell tiling soil. John pp. Jones is absent, but the nearby farm shows numerous belted sows and pigs.
George Chalupa and family extend their home and tend crops after returning from Silas Caldwell's residence where neighbors with six tractors and eighteen men sowed oats and planted potatoes. Lloyd Dickinson and son turn soil preparing fields as dry spell concerns rise. Sows average over nine bushels and Jersey cows look well.
A brief community note thanks Ben Bruegge and others for daily home support and ongoing local help.
Mrs Frank Carson and daughter from Ainsworth viewed photographs of the south. Leo from the sun and the navy shared pictures he took but were ordered to return to the western coast.
A dialogue joke references Adam and radio parts, a pun on a loud speaker. The exchange includes Pilcher remarking the old man looks worn out and needs a vacation, with Goodiss noting he just returned from one.
A short exchange frames a social moment as a man asks why he should be found begging and the response notes begging as the only profession where a gentleman may address a beautiful woman without an introduction.
Two hundred pupils and teachers registered here on the eve of the annual Interstate Rural Spelling contest. The spellers recently won rural contests in Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska and Minnesota territory.
The article notes Aquila as an imaginary locale described as a few miles south of Luray Virginia and west of the Blue Ridge along the Shenandoah River, referenced in the novel Action at Aquila. It clarifies the setting is fictional within the story’s geography.
Prices paid Saturday for sweet cream two cents per pound and sour cream two and three per cent. Eggs priced by size No 1 and No 2 with browns and whites listed. The message notes poultry buyback for delivery to plant and rejects culls with defects.
A junior college production portrays a shipboard mystery where a couple fakes marriage and confronts mortality. Martha Anne Mace shines as Ann in a climactic, gas-filled scene amid strong turns by Rex Hazen Wendell Baker and others, amid tense suspense and emotional acting.
British papers view Hitler’s speech as half defiant and half conciliatory. In Poland unofficial circles suggest doors to negotiations may still exist. A local play review praises Cliveden Banks and cast for their portrayals and notes school groups provided music before the performance.
Washington chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will elect officers at a 7 30 p m gathering next Tuesday. Mrs. Fred Mauthe will host the event and reports from the Continental Congress will be presented.
Black Hawk county filed in district court against Mr. and Mrs. Ben Multhauf seeking $1,122 the amount of relief paid since June 1954. Officials say Mrs Multhauf inherited $1,750 and the couple promised to buy land to become self supporting but bought a car for $230. They have four minor children.
Hi Ho the sage of Chinatown compares certain men to an alarm clock saying their reminder is for your good but you hate to listen to them. The remark frames these men as persistent moralizers who spur action despite reluctance.
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